Muhammad’s polygamy was standard evidence against his prophethood

Evidence

“We will show by the deeds and sayings of Muhammad and through his books that he was not clean, but rather filthy and a sinner.” This “filthiness” is all sexual: Martí goes through the familiar litany of the Muhammad’s polygamy and the Koranic laws of marriage. Here again, is the standard argument that Muhammad’s sex life is proof positive that he is not a true prophet, a theme that is found in both Christian and Jewish writers (such as Maimonides) against Islam. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 1200

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to vault claims on how sexualized Islamic tropes (polygamy, paradise) circulated as shared Jewish and Christian polemic — cites Maimonides as a parallel source, genealogically grounding the modern obsession.
• ADDENDUM: Feeds a cross-cultural moral panic angle in the immodesty piece, except here it’s monotheistic polemic using polygamy rather than dress as proof of moral disorder.